Officer sues over injuries from crash

Concussion, broken bones cited in suit

Patrick Johnson/Times Record News
Wichita Falls Police Sgt. Danny Wiggins’ patrol unit is crushed after it was struck from behind on Sept. 29. Wiggins is suing the driver of the car that struck him.

Officer Wiggins claims the driver who struck his cruiser was intoxicated.

A Wichita Falls police officer has sued a suspected drunken driver over injuries the officer suffered in a wreck Sept. 29.

WFPD Officer Danny Wiggins is filing suit against Kyle Adams, 23, claiming Adams was driving drunk when he struck the back of Wiggins' police car as the officer worked the scene of another wreck on Kell Freeway.

The suit claims Wiggins suffered a concussion and broken bones when Adams' vehicle struck his unit while the officer was in it. Wiggins had to be cut from wreckage.

A second police car also was damaged in the collision. The accident happened shortly after midnight on a Sunday morning on Kell East near Brook Avenue.

Wiggins' attorney, Brad Altman, claims in the suit that Adams had a blood alcohol content nearly three times the legal limit.

Adams was booked on a criminal charge of intoxicated assault and posted a $10,000 bond.

The incident was a series of accidents that occurred in the same area on Kell.

Besides the two wrecks alleged to have involved drunken drivers, a city worker was later seriously injured when he was struck by a vehicle as he cleaned up debris from the first two wrecks.